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[ May 27, 2013; 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ]
The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Monday, May 27th 2013 at 18:00.
Learn Story Mapping through exercises
Story Mapping is a tool to help us see the big picture from a user’s point of view. User Stories freed the Agile community from heavy weight requirements documents, but in the process sometimes we lose [...]
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[ June 6, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ]
The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, June 6th at noon.
Agile Testing Practices
On agile teams, testing is an activity, not a phase or a role and many teams struggle with this concept. In this development model, where do testers fit in agile teams? Janet Gregory explains how testing activities [...]
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[ May 17, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ]
The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Thursday, May 17th at noon.
Adopting Agile in Government
As Agile is seeing widespread adoption in many industry sectors, what about within government (public sector) organizations? Can Agile work within governments? What are some challenges and risks to watch out for? This presentation aims to answer [...]
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We are working on rescheduling the May 2nd meeting. It is tentatively set for May 17th. We have also lost the meeting space at IBM. We will be moving to http://www.startupedmonton.com/. Details to follow in the next couple days.
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[ April 4, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ]
April meeting is cancelled. Will notify if we can reschedule the presentation
The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, April 4th at noon.
TDD/BDD with RSpec and Cucumber
RSpec and Cucumber are the bread and butter of Ruby development. Learn how to write Cucumber features to drive out high level system behaviour. Then [...]
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[ December 7, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, December 7th February 1st at noon.
Fishbowl conversation
We are trying something a bit different for this meeting, a fishbowl conversation.
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about Fishbowl conversations.
What we need from you are topics. You can raise them at
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[ November 2, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ]
The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, November 2nd at noon.
Distributed Agile
While collocation is the preferred choice, it is not always possible. We are seeing a trend where teams are dispersed for a variety of reasons.
Can distributed teams become Agile? If so, how? What challenges will they [...]
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[ October 5, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ]
The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, October 5th at noon.
Agile 2011 Conference
Some folks from Alberta Pensions attended the Agile 2011 Conference. They have agreed to share what they learned.
About the folks from Alberta Pensions
Sean Feehan has been in the Software Development industry for over 7 years and he is currently [...]
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[ September 7, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ]
The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, September 7th at noon.
Kanban versus Scrum: What is the One True Agile Way?
Many associate Scrum as an Agile methodology – but Scrum is not the only Agile methodology available. There is also Kanban – a methodology that focuses on just-in-time delivery and pull work [...]